Project Gutenberg's David Balfour, Second Part, by Robert Louis Stevenson

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: David Balfour, Second Part
Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part:
In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His
Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey
Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More
Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His
Daughter Catriona

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Release Date: November 23, 2004 [EBook #14133]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAVID BALFOUR, SECOND PART ***

Produced by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, and the PG Online Distributed
Proofreading Team

DAVID BALFOUR

Being Memoirs of his Adventures at home
and Abroad

THE SECOND PART: _In which are set forth his Misfortunes
anent the_ APPIN _Murder; his Troubles with Lord Advocate_
GRANT; _Captivity on the Bass Rock; Journey into Holland
and France; and Singular Relations with_ JAMES MORE
DRUMMOND _or_ MACGREGOR, _a Son of the notorious_ ROB
ROY, _and his Daughter_ CATRIONA

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
AND NOW SET FORTH BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1905

COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

* * * * *

DEDICATION TO CHARLES BAXTER, _WRITER TO THE SIGNET_.

MY DEAR CHARLES,

It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them;
and, my David having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre
in the British Linen Company's office, must expect his late reappearance
to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the
days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in
our native city some seed of the elect; some long-legged, hot-headed
youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago;
he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow
among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David
Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, an